{"id":131529,"date":"2025-08-09T10:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/131529\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T10:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:54:10","slug":"man-accused-of-elaborate-car-sales-scam-hit-with-more-charges-haligonia-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/131529\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of elaborate car sales scam hit with more charges \u2013 haligonia.ca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RCMP release:<\/p>\n<p>The Nova Scotia RCMP Commercial Crime Section (CCS) has charged Nicholas Eugene Croscup, 44, originally of Lower Sackville, with additional fraud-related offences as a result of an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Through the investigation, officers determined that between 2022 and 2024, Croscup pretended to be a car dealership broker and falsely sold used vehicles to Nova Scotians. He offered fake financing plans, collected deposits from prospective buyers via e-transfer, and then cut off contact with them. He often used the identity of a deceased Nova Scotian to conceal his own when communicating with others about the fraudulent sales.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2024, CCS\u00a0arrested Croscup in Regina, Saskatchewan, for five outstanding arrest warrants out of Nova Scotia\u00a0in relation to previous fraud-related offences. Officers then executed a search warrant and obtained evidence to support new charges.<\/p>\n<p>On July 31, the following additional charges were laid against Croscup:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fraud over $5,000<\/li>\n<li>Fraud under $5,000 (nine counts)<\/li>\n<li>Identity Theft (two counts)<\/li>\n<li>Possession of Proceeds of Crime<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Croscup, who was released by the court on the previous charges and remains on conditions, is due to appear in Shubenacadie Provincial Court on October 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RCMP release: The Nova Scotia RCMP Commercial Crime Section (CCS) has charged Nicholas Eugene Croscup, 44, originally of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-131529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114998441708805478","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}